We could be super lazy and just buy a packed of ready made pancakes for pancake tuesday but with an easy-peasy fool-proof recipe from Nigella Lawson - you really have no excuse to indulge in these home made delights.  If you don't have time to make them in the morning for your breakfast - have them for your dinner smothered in maple syrup and serve with crispy bacon - YUM!

Ingredients

30g (2 tablespoons) unsalted butter
225g plain flour
2 heaped teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
pinch of salt
300 ml full-fat milk (Sugah gal note -we've trid this with buttermilk instead and it's even more yummy!)

2 large eggs
butter for frying pancakes
best-quality maple syrup

METHOD

1. The easiest way to make these is to put all the ingredients into a blender and blitz. But if you do mix up the batter by hand in a bowl, make a well in the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar, beat in the eggs, melted butter and milk, and transfer to a jug: it's much easier to pour the batter into the pan than to spoon it. I like to leave the batter for 20 minutes before using it; and you may then want to add more milk to the mixture if you're frying in the blini pan, so that it runs right to the edges.
2. When you cook the pancakes, all you need to remember is that when the upper side of the pancake is blistering and bubbling it's time to cook the second side, and this needs only about 1 minute, if that.
3. I get 11 blini-pan-sized pancakes out of this, maybe 16 silver-dollar-sized ones on the griddle.

Recipe by Nigella Lawson from Nigella Bites.